In these Finals, the group and the world won’t win Games three and Four for the Cavs. They should play higher, on each ends of the ground, than they did in Games 1 and 2.

Here are two things to search for in Game three on Wednesday (9 p.m. ET, ABC).

Return of the Death Lineup?

The Cavs ought to get a lift by returning residence for Game three, however the Warriors may additionally get a lift with the return of Andre Iguodala, who has missed the final six video games after struggling a bone bruise in his left knee in Game three of the Western Conference finals. Iguodala is listed as “questionable” for Game three by the Warriors.

The return of Iguodala may imply the return of the Death Lineup (or “Hamptons Five” or no matter you need to name it). Even if Iguodala does not return on Wednesday, the Warriors may use their next-best-thing lineup greater than they’ve up to now.

The lineup with Shaun Livingston and the Warriors’ 4 All-Stars did not play in any respect in regulation of Game 1, however was on the ground for all however the final three seconds of additional time, scoring 15 factors on Golden State’s first six possessions of the additional interval to make Cleveland pay for its late-fourth-quarter errors.

In the fourth quarter of Game 2, Warriors coach Steve Kerr went again to the Livingston lineup … for simply 32 seconds. The lineup has performed just 24 minutes in the entire postseason, all in the six video games since Iguodala’s damage.

Including that Four:57 of additional time in Game 1, the Warriors have performed only nine minutes with Green at center (with no other bigs on the floor) over the primary two video games. They’re a plus-15 in these minutes, plus-Eight in rather less than 5 minutes with Kevin Love at middle for Cleveland and plus-7 in a bit of greater than 4 minutes with Tristan Thompson at middle for Cleveland.

Early screening

One adjustment the Cavs made in Game 2 was setting screens for LeBron James earlier than he crossed the mid-court line. We first noticed it on their fifth possession of the sport, with Thompson screening Durant in the backcourt…

Expect to see extra in Game three. Ideally, the Warriors would favor Durant to keep away from the display screen and get again in entrance of James, so McGee is not put in a troublesome spot. McGee provides the Warriors some vital verticality on offense, however he may not have the option to include James on the opposite finish of the ground. It was in this collection final yr when McGee’s defensive issues stored him from taking part in in Game 5.